This is part 3 of my Common Misconceptions and F.A.Q. post as the first two have reached character limits.

As mentioned in parts 1 and 2, I threw together a couple of questions/misconceptions I commonly see around on this board with hopes that people could arm themselves with better information. I'd love to keep adding to this so keep throwing questions/misconceptions at me to add to this list! Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions you may have - even if you think they are stupid - and I will do my best to answer them or direct you to someone else who can answer them for you! If you are embarrassed about your question for whatever reason, you can either send me a private PM OR you can send an anonymous ask to my tumblr here.

I'm SO poor. Will someone please give me some bells? - While you may find a few extremely generous people who respond to begging, there are MANY ways to make some nice pocket change in New Leaf so there is frankly no reason you should be begging for money unless you are simply not putting any effort in. Yes, some things are more expensive than others but in real life, you have to work hard and save money for the things you like too. If you are having trouble making bells, here are some easy ways to make money:

• On your first few days: Pick up seashells on the beach, harvest fruit, fish and catch bugs to sell. Shake trees (watch out for bees!) and find your daily money rock by striking rocks with a shovel.

• On Sundays: Buy turnips from Joan at a low price and check in with Reese during the week to try and make a profit. There are many tools and resources to help you predict when the most profitable time to sell your turnips will be. Here is one of them but please do your own research too! Also check in at /r/ACTurnips

• Once you have the Island: Visit the island after 5PM to catch rare beetles that fetch a high price! Fishing up sharks is also incredibly profitable although not as steady as beetle farming. Here is a video that shows you how to do this!

•With perfect fruit: Make sure you plant your perfect fruit on the first day! Your town always starts with one. Create a perfect fruit farm and ask a friend with a different native fruit from you to sell your perfect fruit in their town for extra cash! Make sure you tip your friend for their generosity. Here is a video that shows you how to do this!

•Offering services: Some people don't like organizing or watering their flowers. Some people want a lot of trees in their town chopped down and they want extra help. While not everyone will pay for these services, many people are more than willing to give generous tips for small favors like these! Offer to help out your fellow Redditors when you are able and most will be kind enough to leave you some money for your help!

•With contests and sales: Sell off any items you may not want, especially on /r/ACTrade . While some items fetch higher prices than others, always remember that one man's trash is another person's treasure! Some people may pay a lot of bells for something you aren't interested in anymore. That being said, please be realistic. Some items like the Nintendo items and the Balloon set have become incredibly common place so do not expect to sell these items for a whole lot. Other items that you may not find interesting (i.e. the cardboard set) might fetch higher prices simply because they are harder to come by! Just try to be fair about the prices you ask for/offer for each item! Also - try hosting contests or games. While it may seem like you are losing more in giving stuff away, remember that things like this can build friendships and a reputation within the community. If people see you helping others out of the kindness of your heart, they will be more inclined to help you out when you need it most in return! Remember - good karma goes a long way!

•At ReTail: Your villagers will purchase items for more than they are worth HOWEVER there is a limit! Find out how much an item usually sells for. Multiply that price times FOUR and SUBTRACT ONE! This is the highest price you can sell an item at ReTail for. Many people like to use this method for extra fossils and coffee beans to make a lot of bells fast. As an example, superb coffee beans normally sell for 2400 bells. At ReTail you can sell it for 9,599 at most using the formula mentioned. There is a limit to how many bells villagers are willing to spend on something so if your item isn't selling, try lowering the price! I've found that most villagers won't be interested in something if the price exceeds 10-15K bells. Also please remember - you must be present in ReTail for an animal to purchase your goods! They will not buy items if you do not encourage them to do so - they will walk by your item and will make a ping sound. This is when you talk to them! They will state they are interested in buying the item they are looking at and if you want them to have it, encourage them to buy buy buy!

•When you have the dream suite unlocked: Remember that updating your dream each day is a free 5,000 bells! Eventually the dream suite will pay for itself if you take advantage of this so it is highly recommended that you build this project! Just remember that you can only update your town ONCE per day no matter what character you are on.

How can I get all of the most basic tools on the first day? After you have set up your home plot and have made a few bells to spend, go check in with the Nook shop. On the first day, they will sell you one shovel and one other tool (either a fishing rod or a bug net). Once you have purchased these tools, go to the town hall and talk to Isabelle at the front desk. She will give you an option to the effect of "Advice for Living Here." If you select this option, she will send you on a variety of tasks to teach you all about what your town has to offer! At one point, she will bring up that you can make money by fishing and selling bugs and then ask you which you would like to try first. Make sure you select whichever option you do NOT have the tool for!! If you bought a fishing rod at Nook's, tell her you would like to try bug catching and vice versa. If you check in with her again, she will ask you how things are going. You will have the option to tell her that you haven't been able to catch anything yet because you don't have the tool you need. She will then offer to sell a spare one to you! If you select the option for the tool you bought at Nooks, she will NOT offer to sell you the other tool so you will simply have to wait a few days for it to show up at the store. Upon completing her tasks, she will give you a watering can to water your flowers. If you misplace this watering can, don't worry! You'll be able to buy a new one once the gardening shop opens up again!

I was told Leif would sell an axe and that Nook's would sell a slingshot but I haven't seen these items and I've been playing for a few days now! What gives? - Just be patient! These items WILL show up! They have a chance to appear each day. Your game isn't glitched - your randomizer just isn't being very nice to you. You can try picking one up on /r/ACTrade if you aren't willing to wait but I promise you, with a little patience, they will eventually sell the tools you are looking for :]

My flowers are disappearing!! What's happening? - Your flowers aren't just vanishing into thin air for no reason or being abducted by aliens (or Gulliver for older AC players hurr hurr). There are many reasons why your flowers might have disappeared.

• If your flowers were brown or darker colored the day before they vanished your flowers have died and are now gone! Brown flowers mean that the flower has wilted and needs to be watered to stay around. If you do not water it the day you discover it has wilted, it will die and disappear the next day. If you make sure to water any wilted flowers, they will return to normal the following day!! Be sure not to try picking up wilted flowers or you will destroy them - simply water them with your watering can and tomorrow they will be good as new! There is no rhyme or reason as to which flowers will wilt other than sharing the general trait of not having been watered the day before - they are selected at random so there is no predicting which of your flowers will wilt if you have not watered them recently. The only ways to prevent your flowers from ever wilting are to water them all (even if they haven't wilted yet) or enact the Beautiful Town Ordinance which will prevent ALL flowers from wilting.

• If you like to run in your town you may have done something called "trampling" your flowers. Running over flowers creates a chance that you could destroy them, same as if you ran over them in real life! Make sure to carefully WALK over your flowers to keep from destroying them!

•If you invite a lot of people over someone might have taken those flowers without your permission. If you worry about flowers when having visitors over, remember that you CAN pick up your flowers and put them in your house for safe keeping. When flowers are in your inventory or home, they will never wilt!

How the heck do I get mannequins? Can I buy them from someone?? There is no way to trade mannequins so you will unfortunately have to earn them on your own. Should you manage to accidentally destroy one, you will not be able to get it back or trade with another character of yours. There are four different mannequins and each character can get all four. Here is how they are obtained:

• Purchase 51 tops, bottoms or dresses from the Able Sisters' Shop. Mabel will give you this mannequin.

• Befriend Sable and continue to talk to her regularly after unlocking the QR code reader. Also purchase at LEAST 50 items from the Able Sisters' Shop. Once both requirements are met, Sable will give you this mannequin.

• Purchase an accessory on 31 separate days at the Able Sisters' Shop. They are not required to be consecutive days. Labelle will give you this mannequin.

• Make your first purchase with Gracie Grace at the T&T Emporium. Gracie Grace will give you this mannequin.

I am SO tired of digging up this stupid pitfall seed every day and I keep falling in it!! Can't I make it stop appearing?! - While you can't get rid of it altogether, there IS a trick to help you out! Find a very secluded space in your town where villagers don't usually go - most people select a back corner on their beach as it is uncommon to find villagers on the beach. Bury one pitfall seed in this spot. As long as you leave that pitfall seed in the ground there, it will prevent a new one from spawning every day. Because you know exactly where it is, you can avoid "tripping" the seed and falling into a pit each day. Just make sure to check and make sure it is still there every couple of days as there is no completely foolproof way to prevent villagers from falling into it, thus why your goal is to pick a spot where villagers don't often go - to lower the chances of them "tripping" your seed. If they do, you will have to find a new seed and bury it again but as long as that seed remains buried in the ground, no new ones will spawn in your town. As a side note, some who have decided to place the seed up in their town have made a great use of the "caution sign" PWP to denote where their seed has been buried!

Help! I went to build a new PWP today and my list was totally gone!! My game is glitching right?! and I wanted to build another flower clock but it's not even showing up on my list anymore. I know I have it because I already have one in my town so where did it go?! There is a limit of 30 public works projects (PWPs) you can have in your town at any given time. Some of the projects you have on your list will not count towards this 30 - these projects are the reset center, the police station, the museum renovation, the cafe, the town hall renovations, the station renovations, Katrina's shop and the dream suite. Everything else counts as 1 PWP and you can only have 30 in your town. Once you have 30 total PWPs built, your list will show up as empty EXCEPT for any projects I have listed above that do not count towards that number. To get your list back or build a new PWP, you will simply have to demolish some of your existing projects to make room. Once you have less than 30 projects built in your town again, your list will reappear! Some projects may be built ONLY ONCE! Projects like the flower clock, the stone tablet and the tower (to name a few) may only be built once in your town. If you have already built one, the option to build another will not show up on your list until you have demolished the first one. As a side note, even if your town is capped at 30 projects, you will still be able to receive new PWP requests from your villagers! You just won't be able to build them until you've made room for them :]

I found this really neat path but it has more than 10 patterns and I don't want to make another character! Is there a way around this? I can just store them right?? - Unfortunately all patterns used as paths need to be "active" patterns. This means they cannot be stored or they will be rewritten on the ground with whatever you replace them with in your pattern book. There is no way around maintaining a path over 10 patterns big without having "pattern mules" or extra characters to hold these patterns for you. While this sounds like a pain, just remember an extra character also means extra storage/inventory space. If you're afraid of having another house, consider turning that character's house into a fun public building like a restaurant, arcade or spa! The only pattern that does not need to be in your current pattern book to remain active is your town flag - you can put this pattern in storage and your town flag will still remain the same so there is one way to free up an extra slot for you. If you are dead set on only having one character, you will simply have to find a path with fewer than 10 separate patterns in it. Just keep in mind, if you want to wear custom clothing or have custom designs elsewhere, you will still need space for these in your current pattern book too!

Thank you! I have noticed an increase of new faces to the board since Black Friday happened and many of them have some basic questions I hope I have answered in one of my three parts here! If not, I'd love to add more questions to these to keep helping people out :]

Send that villager letters on a regular basis (aim for one per mailing period - so one to go in the 9AM mail, one to go in the 5PM mail), complete all favors they ask of you, give them rarer items when they request regular ones (i.e. perfect fruit if they ask for regular fruit, hard to catch fish/bugs instead of common ones, Gracie items in lieu of Able Sisters/Nook items, etc.) Of course avoid doing things to decrease friendship like hitting them with bug nets, annoying them, etc.

As an additional tip, never accept requests to do things you cannot complete - your friendship will be more affected if you do not complete an errand you say you will instead of declining that errand. That being said, do your best not to decline any errands from them - even if it means getting a petition signed late at night.

No problem! As it states above, if you have any more questions, please feel free to ask me (either via PM, on Tumblr if you wanna remain anonymous, or here in the comment threads) and if I feel multiple people would be wondering the same thing, I'll make sure to add it!

How do people get more projects to make like the japan tower in the game cover? And I've been looking around everywhere and I've been mayor in my town for awhile now and Isabelle isn't sleeping, so how exactly do I unlock the dream suite project?

As for your dream suite question, after seven days have elapsed since you became mayor AND you have used your WiFi at least ONCE with the Animal Crossing game, Isabelle will have a random chance to fall asleep. Unfortunately, it is truly random - some people came across her sleeping 7 days later on the nose... some people didn't come across her asleep for a while. Just keep checking back in at town hall every time you load up your game and eventually you should catch her fast asleep and she will suggest the project for you! Hope that helps :]

Question regarding the maximum price you can sell stuff at Re-Tail (the multiplied by 4 minus 1 thing): when you say the "how much an item usually sells for", does that mean the price that Reese would buy it at if you weren't putting it on the market?

By the way, are there any tips to having your neighbors walk into Re-Tail to buy stuff? I'll walk in multiple times a day to sell things, but usually somebody else only pops in once or twice. Do I just have to stick around there longer?

"How much an item usually sells for" means exactly that - how much Reese would purchase it from you for. There is a hard cap on the maximum amount (I believe it's 9,999? Don't quote me on that though!) that villagers will never go over so keep that in mind when using that handy formula!

As for having your villagers come in to buy things, they enter at random but USUALLY one will come in... it doesn't take too long but sometimes if you pop in and right out again, it isn't long enough for a villager to wander in... so I'd recommend just hanging around a little bit longer inside! Once they are inside, you can guide them around by pushing them in front of items you'd like them to nab from you to help sell your items faster!

I have had an instance where a villager bought something that I put up in ReTail (I know it was a villager because at that time I've never had anyone visit my town). I'd noticed that one of my displays was gone and Reese told me that the money had been put in my savings account. Unfortunately, I don't have any screenshots to back it up, but I thought I'd just put it out there :)

As for your anecdote, that shouldn't be possible to have a villager purchase furniture without you there to encourage them to do so. Are you sure that nobody had visited your town or you hadn't accidentally purchased the item on an alt?

It bothers me because it shows a serious lack of effort in the game, ESPECIALLY because most of the tasks you are supposed to do to enjoy the game are tasks that will reward you with money (fishing, bug hunting, helping villagers out, etc.)

If someone is too lazy to do what the game is about and wants to jump right towards having the cool house and all of the fun items, they are essentially just skipping the whole point of even playing it and will likely be the sort of person to get bored and dump the game in a month... I don't know about you or anyone else but why would I want to give a ton of money to someone who is going to disappear and stop playing in a few weeks anyway, especially when I had to work hard to get the money I have in game. Nothing frustrates me more than someone expecting free handouts because they can't be bothered while the rest of us are working our butts off to earn what we want.

I agree, I think too much freebies will probably kill your game; your interest in playing it at least.

I think it's great to take part in the community; trade & play together. Sometimes people host "closet cleaning" parties, those are fun & interesting & you can get a lot of neat stuff for free. Idk, I feel those are different than asking for free stuff...

I usually do my best to just leave it at "Please see question number x here" to avoid coming off as rude or annoyed but sometimes I can't help but say "this has been asked so many times before" because it DOES get a bit obnoxious for those of us who are here every day to see the same things over and over again. Just do your best to understand they might be new and may not have seen this thread.